Big Boy (born Kurt Alexander; September 8, 1969) is a nationally syndicated American radio host and actor. From 1997 he has hosted the morning show at Los Angeles Rhythmic contemporary station KPWR (Power 106) until his move in February 2015 to KRRL (Real 92.3). His stage name derives from his formerly large build, which he modified through duodenal switch surgery in 2003, leading to a nearly fatal weight loss of over 250 pounds.[1]

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Big Boy was born in Chicago grew up on the West Side, but moved to Los Angeles at age 2. After becoming acquainted with the music industry while DJ-ing Culver City High School parties, Big Boy soon became a bodyguard for the music group The Pharcyde. Big Boy was friends with the Baka Boyz, the morning show hosts at Power 106. Always being a funny personality, Big Boy was offered a hosting position with the station, soon proving successful in nighttime and afternoon hosting spots.

Big Boy's image became well known throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Power 106 placed his nearly-nude 500-plus pound image onto billboards throughout the area.[2]

In 2010, Big Boy and Power 106 were featured in the movie 'Project X.' During the end of the movie he talked about the party and made reference to Kanye West. On August 6, 2007, Big Boy signed a multi-year deal with ABC Radio Networks to syndicate the show, and his weekend show Big Boy's Hip Hop Spot. The show launched nationally on August 20 and is also now called The Big Boy's Neighborhood Morning Show.[citation needed]

On November 24, 2010, Big Boy made a special guest performance in Vicente Fernández's concert at the Gibson Amphitheatre performing "Aca Entre Nos".

In September 2010, Big Boy entered into film production via his production company, Ida's Son Productions. The first film, Exit Strategy, is a romantic comedy centering on James (Jameeel Saleem) who is evicted from his apartment and forced to move in with his girlfriend of three months, Kim (Kimelia Weathers) and quickly discovers she's not his type. When he enlists his friend Carville (Quincy 'QDeezy' Harris) and Leona (Noelle Balfour) to help him find an exit out of the relationship. Comedian Kevin Hart makes a cameo role.

On August 22, 2011, Luscious Liz Hernandez left Big Boy's Radio and became a reporter for E! News.[citation needed]

On February 3, 2015, Emmis Communications filed a breach-of-contract suit against Big Boy after he accepted a $3.5 million contract with iHeartMedia and quit the KPWR morning show. iHeart owns crosstown Urban Contemporary station Real 92.3 KRRL. At KPWR, former nighttime host J. Cruz is now doing the morning show.[7]

In March 2016, a year after he joined KRRL and iHeartMedia, his national-syndicated program was transferred to iHeart's syndication division Premiere Networks from Westwood One.[8]

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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage

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Illinois
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Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 6th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, the word Illinois comes from a French rendering of a native Algonquin word. For decades, OHare International Airport has been ranked as one of the worlds busiest airports, Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics. With the War of 1812 Illinois growth slowed as both Native Americans and Canadian forces often raided the American Frontier, mineral finds and timber stands also had spurred immigration—by the 1810s, the Eastern U. S. Railroads arose and matured in the 1840s, and soon carried immigrants to new homes in Illinois, as well as being a resource to ship their commodity crops out to markets. Railroads freed most of the land of Illinois and other states from the tyranny of water transport. By 1900, the growth of jobs in the northern cities and coal mining in the central and southern areas attracted a new group of immigrants. Illinois was an important manufacturing center during both world wars, the Great Migration from the South established a large community of African Americans in Chicago, who created the citys famous jazz and blues cultures. Three U. S. presidents have been elected while living in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, additionally, Ronald Reagan, whose political career was based in California, was the only U. S. president born and raised in Illinois. Today, Illinois honors Lincoln with its official slogan, Land of Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is located in the capital of Springfield. Illinois is the spelling for the early French Catholic missionaries and explorers name for the Illinois Native Americans. American scholars previously thought the name Illinois meant man or men in the Miami-Illinois language and this etymology is not supported by the Illinois language, as the word for man is ireniwa and plural men is ireniwaki. The name Illiniwek has also said to mean tribe of superior men. The name Illinois derives from the Miami-Illinois verb irenwe·wa he speaks the regular way and this was taken into the Ojibwe language, perhaps in the Ottawa dialect, and modified into ilinwe·. The French borrowed these forms, changing the ending to spell it as -ois. The current spelling form, Illinois, began to appear in the early 1670s, the Illinois name for themselves, as attested in all three of the French missionary-period dictionaries of Illinois, was Inoka, of unknown meaning and unrelated to the other terms. American Indians of successive cultures lived along the waterways of the Illinois area for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, the Koster Site has been excavated and demonstrates 7,000 years of continuous habitation

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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital

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California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and the second largest after New York City. The Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nations second- and fifth-most populous urban regions, California also has the nations most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. The Central Valley, an agricultural area, dominates the states center. What is now California was first settled by various Native American tribes before being explored by a number of European expeditions during the 16th and 17th centuries, the Spanish Empire then claimed it as part of Alta California in their New Spain colony. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821 following its war for independence. The western portion of Alta California then was organized as the State of California, the California Gold Rush starting in 1848 led to dramatic social and demographic changes, with large-scale emigration from the east and abroad with an accompanying economic boom. If it were a country, California would be the 6th largest economy in the world, fifty-eight percent of the states economy is centered on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5 percent of the states economy, the story of Calafia is recorded in a 1510 work The Adventures of Esplandián, written as a sequel to Amadis de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo. The kingdom of Queen Calafia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts. This conventional wisdom that California was an island, with maps drawn to reflect this belief, shortened forms of the states name include CA, Cal. Calif. and US-CA. Settled by successive waves of arrivals during the last 10,000 years, various estimates of the native population range from 100,000 to 300,000. The Indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct groups of Native Americans, ranging from large, settled populations living on the coast to groups in the interior. California groups also were diverse in their organization with bands, tribes, villages. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered many social and economic relationships among the diverse groups, the first European effort to explore the coast as far north as the Russian River was a Spanish sailing expedition, led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, in 1542. Some 37 years later English explorer Francis Drake also explored and claimed a portion of the California coast in 1579. Spanish traders made unintended visits with the Manila galleons on their trips from the Philippines beginning in 1565

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KPWR
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KPWR is a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on an analog signal and in HD Radio. KPWR airs a Rhythmic Top 40 format playing hip hop and R&B with occasional rhythmic pop/dance titles and it is owned and operated by Emmis Communications and is one of its two flagship stations alongside WQHT in New York City. KPWRs studios are based in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank,105.9 FM signed on as easy listening KFI-FM on July 15,1946, later becoming KBMS in 1958 before adopting the KWST call letters and K-West 106 moniker in 1969. During its years as KBMS and KWST, its format had been beautiful music prior to its flip to a format on January 1,1975. K-West emulated the sound of KMET and KLOS. By 1981, though, the ratings had slipped and KWST had changed to a Top 40 format, KWST eventually evolved into KMGG, or L. A. s Magic 106 FM in summer 1982, and played upbeat Adult Contemporary music. In May 1984, Century Broadcasting sold KMGG and St. Louiss KSHE to the Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications, not too long after Emmis bought the station, it immediately saw a niche to counter Top 40s KIIS and KKHR and urban-music outlets KDAY, KJLH, and KACE. The first song on the newly christened Power 106 was Say Im Your Number One by Princess. Jay Thomas was hired as host of The New Power 106 Morning Zoo and then later The Power 106 Morning Zoo or The Original Morning Zoo, Power 106s first tagline in 1986 was Ive Made The Power Switch. and in 1987 with Pure Energy. Dance Now. Followed in 1991 by L. A. s Hottest New Music, then in 1997 as L. A. s New #1 Party Station, and most recently in 2005 with the current tagline Where Hip-Hop Lives. At the time it broadcast what it announced as 72,000 Watts Of Music Power. Less Talk, KPWR picked up additional competition in May 2005 when KXOL dropped their Spanish adult contemporary format for a Hispanic Rhythmic, or hurban, format known as Latino 96.3. The format is a mix of Hispanic hip hop, reggaeton, dancehall. SBS switched formats anyway, and Emmis filed a lawsuit to force SBS to either drop the format switch or find a new transmitter, SBS announced that KXOL would move to another transmitter site a month later, and both parties settled the dispute sometime after. KXOL would eventually exit the format on May 16,2014 to return to Spanish AC as Mega 96.3 after nine years, shortly after the debut of Latino 96.3. Today, J. Cruz, Krystal Bee, DJ E Man, on August 17,2006, KPWRs Country music sister station KZLA flipped directions to Adult Rhythmic Contemporary as Movin 93.9. Most of the played on Movin 93.9 consisted of Rhythmic Pop and Dance hits from the 1980s and 1990s to the present day, along with classic Disco. But after almost a year in the format, KMVN shifted directions to Rhythmic Oldies, but that arrangement ended on April 15,2009, when KMVN flipped to a Spanish format under a LMA with Grupo Radio Centro of Mexico City. In June 2012, KPWR expanded its reach when it was added to both Clear Channel Communications iHeartRadio and Tune-Ins streaming platforms, in its first seven years, KPWRs music selection focused on a mix of dance, house, freestyle, and urban pop, while avoiding hard rock

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Power 106
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KPWR is a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on an analog signal and in HD Radio. KPWR airs a Rhythmic Top 40 format playing hip hop and R&B with occasional rhythmic pop/dance titles and it is owned and operated by Emmis Communications and is one of its two flagship stations alongside WQHT in New York City. KPWRs studios are based in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank,105.9 FM signed on as easy listening KFI-FM on July 15,1946, later becoming KBMS in 1958 before adopting the KWST call letters and K-West 106 moniker in 1969. During its years as KBMS and KWST, its format had been beautiful music prior to its flip to a format on January 1,1975. K-West emulated the sound of KMET and KLOS. By 1981, though, the ratings had slipped and KWST had changed to a Top 40 format, KWST eventually evolved into KMGG, or L. A. s Magic 106 FM in summer 1982, and played upbeat Adult Contemporary music. In May 1984, Century Broadcasting sold KMGG and St. Louiss KSHE to the Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications, not too long after Emmis bought the station, it immediately saw a niche to counter Top 40s KIIS and KKHR and urban-music outlets KDAY, KJLH, and KACE. The first song on the newly christened Power 106 was Say Im Your Number One by Princess. Jay Thomas was hired as host of The New Power 106 Morning Zoo and then later The Power 106 Morning Zoo or The Original Morning Zoo, Power 106s first tagline in 1986 was Ive Made The Power Switch. and in 1987 with Pure Energy. Dance Now. Followed in 1991 by L. A. s Hottest New Music, then in 1997 as L. A. s New #1 Party Station, and most recently in 2005 with the current tagline Where Hip-Hop Lives. At the time it broadcast what it announced as 72,000 Watts Of Music Power. Less Talk, KPWR picked up additional competition in May 2005 when KXOL dropped their Spanish adult contemporary format for a Hispanic Rhythmic, or hurban, format known as Latino 96.3. The format is a mix of Hispanic hip hop, reggaeton, dancehall. SBS switched formats anyway, and Emmis filed a lawsuit to force SBS to either drop the format switch or find a new transmitter, SBS announced that KXOL would move to another transmitter site a month later, and both parties settled the dispute sometime after. KXOL would eventually exit the format on May 16,2014 to return to Spanish AC as Mega 96.3 after nine years, shortly after the debut of Latino 96.3. Today, J. Cruz, Krystal Bee, DJ E Man, on August 17,2006, KPWRs Country music sister station KZLA flipped directions to Adult Rhythmic Contemporary as Movin 93.9. Most of the played on Movin 93.9 consisted of Rhythmic Pop and Dance hits from the 1980s and 1990s to the present day, along with classic Disco. But after almost a year in the format, KMVN shifted directions to Rhythmic Oldies, but that arrangement ended on April 15,2009, when KMVN flipped to a Spanish format under a LMA with Grupo Radio Centro of Mexico City. In June 2012, KPWR expanded its reach when it was added to both Clear Channel Communications iHeartRadio and Tune-Ins streaming platforms, in its first seven years, KPWRs music selection focused on a mix of dance, house, freestyle, and urban pop, while avoiding hard rock

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KRRL
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KRRL is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, with an Urban Contemporary format. Its studios are located in Burbank between the Warner Bros, Studios and The Burbank Studios, and it has a transmitter site on Mount Wilson with most other television and FM radio stations serving Los Angeles. The station first signed on the air on December 29,1948 as KFAC-FM, the stations aired a commercial classical music format for the Los Angeles media market. At first, the two stations simulcast but later aired separate fine arts programming for part of the day. According to a quote from a 1989 New York Times article, only 41 of nearly 9,000 commercial radio stations in the United States play classical music, in January 1989, Evergreen Media announced they would be purchasing KFAC, with the sale to close that Summer. The following day at noon, the station flipped to KKBT, the first song under the new format was Walk on the Wild Side by Lou Reed. The station offered a blend of rock, dance music. The format failed, and by March 1990, the rock cuts were gone. The station then moved toward a rhythmic AC format playing a blend of disco, soft pop hits, current R&B, the station still did not do well, and by the summer of that year, it evolved to a strictly urban AC format. By 1991, rap and hip-hop were being mixed in, as an urban contemporary station, KKBT hit #1 a few times in the ratings. It competed aggressively with a station on the 105.9 frequency. Dre and the World Class Wreckin Crew, with Ronnie Big Ron OBrien, Johnny Big John Monds, other shows included Westside Radio, a weekly radio program dedicated to West Coast Hip-Hop, and Street Soldiers, a weekly program dedicated to community issues and politics. The station went by the slogan No Color Lines, proudly championing the diversity of the region and it is believed that KKBT was inspired by KMEL and KDAY. During the 1990s, the station held a concert known as Summer Jam. In a group deal in 1997, Evergreen merged with Chancellor, Chancellor acquired stations from other groups that exited the market. In 1999, Chancellor merged with Capstar and the company became AMFM, in the fall of 1999, Clear Channel Communications and AMFM Inc. merged. This gave Clear Channel the five FM stations in LA and KIIS-FM which Clear Channel already owned, however, in order to get under the government-mandated market ownership limits, some stations were required to be spun off. One of the full powered FMs in Los Angeles had to go, kKBTs was the station chosen, it was sold to Radio One

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Culver City High School
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Culver City High School is the main public high school of the Culver City Unified School District in Culver City, California. The schools colors are blue and silver, and the mascot is the centaur, as of 2014, the enrollment was roughly 2000. Culver City High School is recognized as a California Distinguished School, since 2004, it has held an annual peace concert called Peace of Music. Every year on July 4, CCHS hosts a fireworks show, in addition, Rigoberta Menchú has visited and spoken on peace. The schools newspaper is The Centaurian, which is part of the High School National Ad Network, CCHS also offers a variety of academic extracurricular activities such as speech and debate, math club, and mock trial

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The Pharcyde
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The Pharcyde is an American alternative hip hop group, formed in 1989, from South Central Los Angeles. The original four members of the group are Imani, Slimkid3, Bootie Brown, DJ Mark Luv was the groups first disc jockey, followed by producer J-Swift and then J Dilla. The group is perhaps best known for the hit singles Drop, Passin Me By and Runnin, as well as their first album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde. Pharcyde group members Slimkid3, Bootie Brown, and Imani met as dancers in the late 1980s, around this time, Imani and Slimkid3 were in a group called As Is and later a group called the Play Brothers, whilst Bootie Brown was a backup dancer for Fatlip. Bootie Brown recalls that their earlier dancing careers influenced their rapping – sometimes the way I rap is almost like the way I used to dance. The group met Reggie Andrews, a local music teacher who worked with the Dazz Band and Rick James. The group also met producer J-Swift around this time, as he was Reggie Andrewss star pupil according to the book Check the Technique, the group, along with producer J-Swift, recorded their first album Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, which was released in September 1992. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1996, the album was highly acclaimed, and became one of the most praised and influential alternative hip hop albums of the 1990s. Their second single Passin Me By became a minor Billboard hit, the song was later featured in the hit movie Big Daddy and was also a crossover modern rock hit. The song is now considered a golden-era staple and is the groups most well known song. The album featured a couple of guest MCs, including Bucwheed on the tracks On The DL, problems between the group and producer J-Swift began during the recording of the debut, with infighting and personality conflicts. J-Swift started a crack habit, from which he is trying to recover. A documentary,1 More Hit, recorded his attempts to recover from his addiction, after the Bizarre Ride album was released, the group began touring with A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, culminating with an appearance at the Lollapalooza show in 1994. In 1994, Pharcyde appeared on the Red Hot Organizations compilation album, Stolen Moments, the album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as Album of the Year by Time Magazine. In 1995, The Pharcyde released their album, Labcabincalifornia. The album received mixed reviews, maybe due to a different musical direction from the light-hearted playfulness of their debut, the album included another big crossover hit, Runnin, peaking at No.55 on the Billboard Hot 100. This single was featured in the movie 8 Mile, as well as the More Music from 8 Mile soundtrack. Labcabincalifornia featured production from producers Jay Dee, member Slimkid3 has stated that the group met Jay Dee by way of Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, who handed them the tape that contained some of the production that would end up on the LP

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Baka Boyz
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The Baka Boyz, brothers Nick and Eric Vidal, are American radio personalities, music producers and remixers from Bakersfield, California. The duo first achieved fame on the radio station KPWR in Los Angeles. The Baka Boyz were originally DJs in Bakersfield, California, before moving south to Los Angeles and they first began at Power 106 in 1992 with their show creation, Friday Nite Flavas. They also developed Powers live mixing World Famous Roll Call, after achieving high ratings in the morning and afternoon slots at Power for seven years, the duo grew disaffected with Powers move to R&B, at the expense of hip-hop, and left. Shortly after leaving Power 106 in 1999, the duo briefly had a show on KKBT. Later, they decided to move north to KMEL in San Francisco and they are hosts of the nationally syndicated Hip Hop Master Mix, broadcast on over fifty stations nationwide. Finally, the Baka Boyz acted as talent scouts, discovering future LA radio star Big Boy, in addition, they have also produced tracks for various artists. They produced and co-wrote the track Scandalous by Psycho Realm on the 1994 Mi Vida Loca original motion picture soundtrack, Pistol Grip Pump by Project Blowed rapper Volume 10, and other tracks. The Vidals later relocated to WMIB The Beat 103.5 in Miami in March 2003 as the morning hosts. But by 2005 The Baka Boyz returned to Los Angeles to do afternoon hosting at 93.5 KDAY and they were there until May 2007, when the Baka Boyz moved to Blazin 98.9 in San Diego to do their morning show there. The Duo left the station in 2008 and continues to focus on their weekly syndicated Hip-Hop mix show The Baka Boyz Master Mix,2008 MAS Magazine Interview with The Baka Boyz Hip Hop News, FNV Newsletter, August 2,1999 The Baka Boyz website biography

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Greater Los Angeles Area
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Throughout the 20th century, it was one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States, although growth has slowed since 2000. As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of nearly 13 million residents. Meanwhile, the metropolitan regions population at the 2010 census was estimated to be over 17.8 million residents. Either definition makes it the second largest metropolitan region in the country, behind the New York metropolitan area, the agglomeration of the urbanized Greater Los Angeles area surrounds the urban core of Los Angeles County. However, this Census definition includes large, sparsely populated and primarily desert swaths of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, according to the U. S. However, more than half of this area lies in the sparsely populated eastern areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Los Angeles has a reputation for sprawl. For comparison, the New York–Newark Urbanized Area as a whole had a density of 5,309 per square mile. Los Angeles sprawl may originate in the decentralized structure. Its major commercial, financial, and cultural institutions are geographically dispersed rather than being concentrated in a single downtown or central area. Also, the density of Los Angeles proper is low when compared to some other large American cities such as New York, San Francisco, Boston. This is misleading though, since unlike other cities the boundary of Los Angeles incorporates mountain areas with almost no people, when the actually built up area is considered, urban Los Angeles has density in excess of 10,000 people per square mile. Densities are particularly high within a 5-mile radius of downtown, where some neighborhoods exceed 20,000 people per square mile. Also, what gives the entire Los Angeles metro region a high density is the fact many of the citys suburbs. Within its urbanized areas, Los Angeles is noted for having small lot sizes, buildings in the area are low when compared to other large cities, mainly due to zoning regulations. Los Angeles became a city just as the Pacific Electric Railway spread population to smaller cities much as interurbans did in East Coast cities. In the first decades of the century, the area was marked by a network of fairly dense. The ascendance of the automobile helped fill in the gaps between these towns with lower-density settlements. Many working class whites migrated to this area during the 1960s and 1970s out of East, as a result, there was a large growth in population into the Conejo Valley and into Ventura County through the US101 corridor

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National Association of Broadcasters
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The NAB represents more than 8,300 terrestrial radio and television stations as well as broadcast networks. As of 2015, the president and CEO of the NAB is Gordon Smith, the NAB was founded as the National Association of Radio Broadcasters in 1922 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. The associations founder and first president was Eugene F, mcDonald Jr. who also launched the Zenith corporation. In 1951 it changed its name to the National Association of Radio, in 1958 it adopted its current name, National Association of Broadcasters. The NAB worked to establish a radio system in the United States. The coalition claimed that the industry would only promote profitable programming, thereby reducing the quality. The National Independent Broadcasters were formed in 1939 as part of the NAB, to represent stations that were not associated with any network, many satellite radio enthusiasts have criticized the NAB for lobbying against legislation approvals for those services. The NAB has lobbied against the use of spaces, unused broadcast spectrum lying between broadcast channels, for wireless broadband internet and other digital use. Indeed, the FCC has recommended the use of spaces for broadband. In 2011 the NAB funded a campaign titled The Future of TV, advocating for the private ownership of the spectrum. In mid-2014, an NAB advertising campaign against a Congressional threat appeared, organization similar to the NAB exist in individual U. S. states, including Georgia Association of Broadcasters in Georgia, and the Illinois Broadcasters Association, in Illinois. In Canada, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters has a similar role, nABs annual spring convention is the NAB Show. It typically draws over 100,000 industry professionals, NAB also manages the NAB Radio Show which is held each autumn and draws over 3,000 radio professionals. Other strides in nonlinear editing technology included archival film restoration, digital audio mixing improvements, motion stabilization of hand-held footage and rotoscoping with one click

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Malibu's Most Wanted
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The film is written by the creators of MADtv, Fax Bahr and Adam Small, who also serve as producers. The character of B-Rad originally appeared in Jamie Kennedys hidden-camera show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, the film was given a PG-13 rating by the MPAA. To keep it, the films end-credits were edited to prevent the film receiving an R rating. Bradley B-Rad Gluckman is a young privileged white man from Malibu, B-Rad dresses and speaks like a gangster and essentially thinks and acts like he is black. His father, Bill Gluckman, is running for governor of California, after Bills campaign manager Tom Gibbons gets irritated with B-Rads constant interruptions with the election, Bill decides that B-Rad must see a psychiatrist, Dr. Feldman. Dr. Feldman tells B-Rads parents Bill and Bess that B-Rad has the most serious case of gangstaphrienia that he has ever seen, Tom then has an idea to hire two actors, PJ and Sean James to try to scare B-Rad back to normal. Although Bill thinks it could get dangerous, he reluctantly agrees, with the help of PJs cousin Shondra, they kidnap B-Rad and take him to the ghetto. Shondra tries to convince B-Rad that if he stops acting like a gangster, B-Rad tries to tell Shondra he cannot, it is who he is. The actors then try plan B, forcing B-Rad to rob a store owned by a Korean American family. Later, realizing they forgot to call to tell the owner that the robbery was fake, after sending B-Rad in, PJ and Sean begin to worry the plan will fail and they will go to jail. B-Rad finds his stash of cash in his pants and pays for the alcohol he was supposed to steal for the two gangsters. B-Rad then lies to them and says he stole it, when they find a receipt in the back, B-Rad says he stole that, too. The actors try taking him to a movie to get him to stop trying to be a gangster. All B-Rad does is get scared and screams and throws popcorn all over the place, at this point, PJ and Sean are frustrated and decide to take B-Rad to a club and have him compete in a rap battle. B-Rad ends up getting thrown off the stage for saying the N word in one of his rhymes and he is thrown in a dumpster while the actors laugh at him hysterically. B-Rad feels as if he never could rap, until Shondra changes his mind, after she cheers him up, they kiss. B-Rad takes it too far and gets on top of Shondra and she storms out of the room and B-Rad takes a nap. He dreams about a rat by the name of Ronnie Rizzat and he tells to just be himself and his dream ends and B-Rad hears the actors on the phone with Tom

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Soul Plane
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Soul Plane is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Jessy Terrero, written by Joe Zenga and starring Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man and Snoop Dogg. Supporting actors include MoNique, Loni Love, K. D, in response, he sues the airline and is awarded $100,000,000 by the jury. He decides to use the money to start his own airline, whose acronym and logo are a pop culture reference to rap group N. W. A. The airline, specifically caters to African Americans and hip hop culture, the safety video is also a spoof of the Destinys Child song Survivor. After taking off from Los Angeles International Airport, Nashawn must deal with a multitude of problems, at a cruising altitude of Flight Level 330, it is revealed that he has never left the ground because he learned to fly on computer simulators in prison. Meanwhile, his cousin Muggsey, sets up a casino and strip joint in one of the areas of the plane. The pilot seemingly dies after eating mushrooms that the co-pilot, First Officer Gaemon, Nashawn attempts to contact Gaemon, who is incapacitated after slipping near a hot tub, forcing Nashawn to attempt to land the plane himself. Nashawn lands the plane safely, using the airplane stewardess flight knowledge which she learned while having sex in the cockpit with the pilot on another plane. The plane lands in the middle of Central Park instead of John F. Kennedy International Airport, Nashawn reconciles with his ex-girlfriend after earlier revealing to her that he only broke up with her so she would not give up her college opportunities for him. The movie ends with Nashawn telling the audience the fate of his crew, the pilot later wakes up with both his chain and clothing stolen. Soul Plane opened on May 28,2004 in 1,566 theaters, in its opening weekend, the film made $5,648,486 in the domestic box office, ranking number five behind Shrek 2, The Day After Tomorrow, Troy, and Raising Helen. At the end of its run, the film grossed $14,190,750 domestically and he explained, on the street, made 40 million dollars. Hart told Marc Maron that during a premiere, fans were coming up to him asking him to sign copies of the bootleg, Hart does, however, credit Soul Plane for making him popular enough to start touring around the country. The film received reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 18% from a total of 99 reviews with a consensus stating, on Metacritic, the film has a 33/100 rating based on 26 reviews, indicating generally unfavorable reviews. In late 2014, the film appeared on Empire magazines users-voted list of The 50 Worst Movies Ever and its given reason for being listed states, This was billed as an urban take on Airplane. Thats a bad idea to begin with, like Scary Movie, but with the addition of crude racial stereotyping and a fatal lack of funny, this goes from bad to worst. If more voters had seen it, this would be in the top ten, in The Boondocks episode. Or Die Trying, the Freemans see Soul Plane 2, The Blackjacking, featuring a terrorist plot to blow up a nuclear power plant using the Soul Plane

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The Longest Yard (2005 film)
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The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film, a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. Burt Reynolds, who played Sandlers role in the original, co-stars as Nate Scarborough, Chris Rock plays Crewes friend, known as Caretaker. The film was produced by MTV Films and Happy Madison Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures, paul Crewe is a former NFL player who, one night, gets drunk and goes joyriding in his girlfriends Bentley, crashing it. It is revealed that he was arrested for shaving points in a big game, Crewe informs Hazen that what Hazens team needs is a tune-up game to boost the guards confidence, and is therefore coerced to form an inmate team to play against the guards. He does so with the help of a friend, Caretaker. Caretaker tells Crewe that they need more brothers on the team, when Crewe goes to the basketball court to ask the black inmates to join the team, their leader, Deacon Moss rebuffs him. Crewe challenges Deacon to a basketball game, saying that if he wins, the brothers will join the team. Deacon accepts, and despite Deacons undisguised personal fouls in which he elbows, punches or grabs Crewe, Crewe continues without complaint, because the match is a question of pride and respect. On the game-winning shot, Crewe cleanly steals the ball from Deacon and scores, realizing he wouldnt be allowed to win, Crewe lets Deacon score the final shot. Although Deacon beats Crewe, one of the brothers, a fast runner named Earl Megget, impressed with Crewes decision to take the beating, having witnessed this, the other brothers, including Deacon, decide to join the team too. Hazen and the guards attempts to hinder Crewes team by flooding their field. Inmate Unger spies on the activities of the inmates and after being pressured by the guards, Caretaker unknowingly enters the cell to give a photo gift to Crewe, but is killed when he tries to turn the dial on the radio. The Mean Machine overcomes a rough start, due to individual inmates attempts to retaliate against guards for the abuse theyve suffered. Crewe angrily tells the inmates that winning the game is important and will damage the guards more than their personal grudges. The first half ends with the score tied, the angered Hazen informs Crewe in private that if he does not lose he will be charged for Caretakers murder. After Crewe fakes an injury in order to leave the field, after seeing that Hazen has broken his promise and two members of the Mean Machine are injured, Crewe asks Skitchy if the time spent in jail for punching the warden was worth it. Skitchy replies, It was worth every second, and inspired Crewe returns to the field. The team initially doubts Crewe’s resolve and allows him to be sacked twice, Moss puts his hand in, followed by the rest of the team

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The Players Club
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The Players Club is a 1998 American comedy/drama film written and directed by Ice Cube, who made his directorial debut and also has a small role in the film. The film stars Bernie Mac, Monica Calhoun, Jamie Foxx, John Amos, A. J. Johnson, Alex Thomas, Charlie Murphy, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Diana Armstrong arrives at the scene of the raunchy, dysfunctional Players Club. She narrates that she used to work at the club and had begun when she moved out of her parents home after an argument with her father, as she was pregnant with her son. Diana ends up working at a store, when she meets Ronnie and Tricks. They convince Diana she would make better money stripping, by saying, Dolla Bill gives Diana a job, giving her the name Diamond. Everything is fine until four years into the game her younger lost-minded cousin Ebony Armstrong comes to live with her, after listening to Dollas rendition of The Strippin Game, she starts working at the club. Ebony is soon out of control, excessively drinking, staying out all night and influenced more and more by Ronnie and Tricks, who encourage Ebony to do more out-of-club parties for groups of men. Diana tries to warn Ebony to stay away from two and quit doing house parties, but Ebony declines being told what to do, choosing to ignore Dianas advice. Meanwhile, Dolla Bill gets confronted by a man who works for St. Louis and he warns Dolla Bill if he doesnt make a payment of $10,000 to St. Louis, he will hunt him down. That same night, St. Louis comes to his club to collect, little Man, who is the doorman of the club, tells St. Louis that Dolla Bill is not at the club and they leave. The next day as Dolla Bill tries to leave the club, he gets confronted by St. Louis men, Brooklyn and they beat him unconscious and throw him into the back of his car. Luckily for him, they are stopped by Freeman and Peters, Dolla Bill is found in the trunk and is arrested on warrants. The following night when rapper Luther Luke Campbell comes to the strip club, two of Louiss watchmen, Reggie and Clyde are discussing about him. When Dolla Bill, who was bailed out of jail and returned to his club, is notified that Luke is at his club he alerts the strippers via a money alarm and believes he will gain a fortune profit. Clyde tries to meet Luke but his bodyguard informs Clyde that Luke is trying to relax, Clyde insults the bodyguard causing him to hit Clyde in the back of his head as he leaves, leaving him unconscious. In retaliation, Reggie beats down the bodyguard and belligerently fights against Luke and his friends, only for him to be defeated, the dazed Reggie opens fire wildly before being knocked out by the bouncer XL. Diana chases Lance out with her gun, shooting at him several times, when Diana feigns leaving, Ebony is hit when she opens the door and is thrown out the apartment. Diana then begins dating Blue, a DJ at the Players Club, meanwhile, Ebony is offered a gig to dance at Ronnies brother Juniors bachelor party, under the pretense from Ronnie that other girls from the club will be dancing there as well

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Charlie's Angels 2
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Charlies Angels, Full Throttle is a 2003 American action comedy film directed by McG and written by John August, and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley. It is the sequel to 2000s Charlies Angels, itself based on the series of the same name by Ivan Goff. In an ensemble cast, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu return as the angels Natalie, Dylan and this was John Forsythes final film appearance before his retirement and his death in 2010. It opened in the United States on June 27,2003, marshal Ray Carter in Mongolia, the Angels, Natalie Cook, Dylan Sanders, and Alex Munday, together with John Bosleys adoptive brother Jimmy Bosley, are sent to recover H. A. L. O. Titanium rings stolen from the United States Department of Justice which can display the people listed in the protection program. DOJ official William Rose Bailey and a witness, Alan Caulfield are among those killed. At Caulfields house in San Bernardino, the Angels track his assassin Randy Emmers to a beach where they meet with former Angel Madison Lee, during the Coal Bowl motorcycle race, Emmers targets another witness named Max Petroni, but is killed by the Thin Man. Inside Emmers pocket, the Angels discover the photos of Caulfield, Max, Dylan reveals that she is a protected witness after sending her former boyfriend, Irish mob leader Seamus OGrady, to prison. OGrady has since targeted those who wronged him, including Dylan and Max, Max is sent to the home of Bosleys mother for his protection. At a monastery, the Angels learn about the Thin Mans past from the Mother Superior, afterward, the Angels track OGradys mob at San Pedro and manage to get the rings, but OGrady threatens Dylan with the murder of everyone she loves. She is, however, convinced to return after seeing an apparition of former Angel Kelly Garrett, Natalie and Alex deduce that Carter is a part of OGradys scheme after seeing him return Bosleys keys. Following him, the two witness him being shot by Madison, the mastermind behind all of this. Though Dylan arrives to back the group, the Angels are shot by Madison, the Angels set the three groups up to be arrested by the FBI instead, while they confront Madison and OGrady. OGrady kills the Thin Man, but Dylan manages to throw him down to his death, the Angels fight Madison all the way to an abandoned theater, where they kick her to a gas-filling chamber, with her dooming herself by shooting her bullets, exploding it. The Angels attend the premiere where they learn that Mama Bosley is adopting Max, peter postpones his engagement with Natalie by buying for them a puppy named Spike while Alex terminates her timeout with Jason. The Angels celebrate their victory together with Bosley. S, marshal Ray Carter John Cleese as Mr. C. McCarthy previously appeared in the first film as character, Doris. The movie starts up abruptly from the first film, a series of online animated episodes explain how the Angels got there and their mission, concluded by the very introduction of the movie

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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
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It was the first film released by Happy Madison Productions. Released on December 10,1999, the film received reviews from critics. A sequel, titled Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo, was released in 2005, Deuce Bigalow, an insecure fishtank cleaner, is fired for cleaning the tank at a public aquarium in the nude. Deuce is unsuccessful in attracting women, so he attempts to keep himself busy at work, on a house call, he meets an Argentinean male prostitute Antoine Laconte. Antoine is going on a trip, and so asks Deuce to care for his lionfish. Deuce accidentally sets Antoines kitchen on fire trying to make a grilled cheese sandwich in the toaster. Fearing Antoine will kill him, Deuce is forced to find a way to pay for the damage. Low-rent pimp T. J. Hicks offers to help Deuce make enough money to buy a new fish tank, Deuce decides to make the clients feel better about themselves, since he only desires to have sex with beautiful women. Deuce meets unusual clients but he manages to get along with them, despite there being no sex involved. Deuces list of clients gradually increases, with each client being satisfied by much more fulfilling measures due to his evasion of sex with them, however, Deuce falls in love with one of his clients, Kate, who has a prosthetic leg. She later breaks up with Deuce when she finds out that he was a prostitute hired by her friends, meanwhile, Deuce is being stalked by Detective Chuck Fowler, who demands Antoines black book of clients and threatens to take Deuce to jail if he does not comply. Deuce eventually helps Fowler please his wife by stripping and erotically dancing for her, Deuce is still taken into custody on prostitution charges, as Fowler needs someone to bring in and Deuces own refusal to betray his newfound friend, T. J. by turning him in. At the hearing, it is revealed that Deuce never slept with any of the clients except for Kate, since Deuce gave back the money to Kate and was not paid for sex with her, he is cleared of all charges. Using the money he made, Deuce restores Antoines fish tank, unfortunately, one of Deuces friends accidentally kills the prize fish in Antoines aquarium. Deuce buys a replacement fish and returns to Antoines house just in time, Antoine is suspicious, but cannot figure out why. He taps the new aquarium and the glass shatters, Deuce then reveals his prostituting adventures to the bemused and furious Antoine. Enraged, Antoine tries to kill Deuce, and at one point shoots a bolt at him. The aforementioned overweight client, Fluisa, shows up, comes between the two men, and saves Deuces life, Antoine is then arrested by Detective Fowler, and Deuce marries Kate. J

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Fox television
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf

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Fastlane (TV series)
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Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18,2002 to April 25,2003. On August 14,2005 G4 began rebroadcasting the complete series, after finishing its initial run on the network, Fastlane stopped airing on G4. Fastlane also aired on TVOne sometime around 2006, van Ray and Deaqon Hayes are two mismatched cops teamed together by shady vixen police lieutenant, Wilhelmina Billie Chambers, in a secretive undercover division of the Los Angeles Police Department. Operating with the motto Everything we seize, we keep, given criminal covers, the officers use all of the resources at their disposal to apprehend dangerous criminals while walking the line between cop and criminal. The series consisted of episodes, forty-five minutes each, plus an unaired pilot which ended up being very similar to the first episode broadcast. Episodes 13 and 14 form a story, while episodes 21 and 22 form a two-part story ending on a cliffhanger which sees Billie Chambers kidnapped and forced to do drugs. As the series was canceled at that point due to the costs of each episode. Each episode cost the two studios making it $2.6 million, the shows hallmarks—unconventional cinematography, pyrotechnics, guest appearances, licensed soundtracks, supercars and other exotic vehicles—were the root cause of the exorbitant production costs. The show was canceled because of high production costs and the ratings drop it suffered from being moved from Wednesday nights to Friday nights. Warner Home Video released Fastlane, The Complete Series on DVD as a six disc set on July 8,2008 in the Region 1, the soundtrack was significantly altered for the DVD release due to licensing issues. Episodes are cropped to be in the original 4,3 format rather than the 16,9 widescreen format as they appeared on television. The complete series was instant streaming on Netflix until the summer of 2011 when it was taken off for unknown reasons, Fastlane at the Internet Movie Database Fastlane at TV. com

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VH1
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VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City that is owned by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks. The channel was first launched on January 1,1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting Systems short-lived Cable Music Channel and it was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and the original owner of MTV. As of February 2015, approximately 92.6 million US households receive VH1, also frequently featured in the networks early years were videos for Motown and other 60s oldies consisting of newsreel and concert footage. It was introduced on January 1,1985 with the performance of The Star-Spangled Banner by Marvin Gaye. From the start, Video Hits One was branded as a version of its sister/parent channel. It played more jazz and R&B artists than MTV and had a rotation of urban-contemporary performers. Its early on-camera personalities were New York radio veterans Don Imus, Frankie Crocker, Scott Shannon, Jon Bauman, Bobby Rivers, later VJs included Tim Byrd of WPIX-FM, a station whose eclectic ballad-and-R&B oriented format mirrored that of VH-1, and Alison Steele. Rosie ODonnell later joined the outlets veejay lineup, ODonnell would also host a comedy show featuring various comedians each episode. The format left room for occasional ad-libs by the VJ, a godsend for emcees such as Imus, in true Imus style, he used a 1985 segment of his VH-1 show to jokingly call smooth-jazz icon Sade Adu a grape for her oval-shaped head. At first many different musicians guest-hosted the program, but eventually musician/songwriter Ben Sidran became the permanent host, new-Age music videos continued to play on the channel into the 1990s. They would be seen on the Sunday morning 2-hour music video block titled Sunday Brunch, once VH1 established itself a few years later, they catered to Top 40, adult contemporary, classic rock, and 1980s mainstream pop. For a time, even music videos aired in a one-hour block during the afternoons. They started out using MTVs famous Kabel typeface font for their music video credit tags and it was later replaced in 1991 by a larger font, with the year the video was made added to the lower column that identified the label on which the album was released. In 1993, the name of the director was included at the bottom of the credits. Every week, the Top 21 Video Countdown usually had a different guest host, occasionally, they had themed countdowns as well, such as Elvira hosting scary videos for Halloween in 1991. Long blocks of videos by a particular artist or band, theme. One popular weekend program was called Video Rewind, in blocks of 1980s videos from one particular year would play for an hour. There was also a short-lived hour-long program called By Request in which viewers could call a 1–900 hotline number to request their videos, also in 1991, a popular morning program was introduced called Hits News & Weather that ran from 7 AM to 9 AM ET

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I Love New York (TV series)
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I Love New York is a reality television series featuring Tiffany New York Pollard on a quest to find her true love. The series first aired on VH1 as a spin off to Flavor of Love, another relationship competition series, the winner of the shows first season, Tango failed to deliver as New Yorks soul mate. When the second season aired, Tailor Made was revealed as New Yorks chosen flame, in addition to Pollard, a host of other individuals from Flavor of Love, including Sister Patterson, appeared on the show to help Pollard choose the right man. Mauricio Sanchez played New Yorks assistant, Chamo, during the first season, the production of a second season of I Love New York was first announced during a commercial break for the April 29,2007, episode of Charm School. After the show was wrapped up for one, the house was used for another VH1 show, Flavor of Love Girls. I Love Money was filmed from February to March 2008, with the premiere on July 6,2008. New York Goes to Hollywood began on August 4,2008, the show will star New York as she goes throughout Hollywood trying to find an acting job. To focus on her new mission, New York has to put her last conquest, Tailor Made, on the backburner as she tries to take on Tinseltown. Brothers Ahmad and Kamal Givens did not win I Love New York, but they were given a chance in the spin-off Real Chance of Love. On the show, the horse-breeding, music-producing entertainer brothers were the stars of their own reality dating competition, seventeen female contestants participated in the show and taking part in various challenges. Each week, women are eliminated until the episode, where Ahmad selected Corn Fed. A second season has been confirmed by Vh1 and casting began in March 2009, the season premiered on August 3,2009 and the finale was on October 26,2009. On the second season finale Ahmad selected Doll and Kamal selected Hot Wingz, in 2015, Ahmad died from colon cancer at age 33. New York Goes to Work premiered on May 4,2009, the reality show followed New York as she searched for a regular job. After the finale, viewers were asked to vote on what she should do next, the choices were, I Love New York 3, Take a vacation, or find a real job. America voted for I Love New York 3, a casting call was issued for a VH1 reality dating show starring Frank Maresca. The show was tentatively entitled The Entertainer of Love but it was revealed on the VH1 Blog that the show was going to be called Frank the Entertainer. in a Basement Affair, the show premiered January 3,2010. The Bachelorette A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila Transamerican Love Story I Love New York at the Internet Movie Database I Love New York at TV. com

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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004 for the PlayStation 2, a high definition remaster received a physical release on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on 30 June 2015 and 1 December 2015, respectively. It is the title in the Grand Theft Auto series. It was released on the day as the handheld game Grand Theft Auto Advance. Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas is played from a perspective in an open world environment. The game is set within the fictional U. S. state of San Andreas, the state of San Andreas consists of three metropolitan cities, Los Santos, based on Los Angeles, San Fierro, based on San Francisco, and Las Venturas, based on Las Vegas. The single-player story follows Carl CJ Johnson, who returns home to Los Santos from Liberty City after his mothers murder. It became the video game of 2004, and has sold over 27.5 million copies worldwide as of 2011. The game, like its predecessors, is cited as a landmark in video games for its influence within the industry. However, the violence and sexual content of San Andreas has been the source of public concern. In particular, a software patch, dubbed the Hot Coffee mod. The next main entry in the series, Grand Theft Auto IV, was released on 29 April 2008, San Andreas has been ported to various other platforms and services, such as OS X, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and mobile devices. San Andreas is structured similarly to the two games in the series. The core gameplay consists of elements of a shooter and a driving game, affording the player a large. On foot, the character is capable of walking, running, sprinting, swimming, climbing and jumping as well as using weapons. Players can drive a variety of vehicles, including automobiles, buses, semis, boats, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, trains, tanks, players may also import vehicles in addition to stealing them. The open, non-linear environment allows players to explore and choose how they wish to play the game, although storyline missions are necessary to progress through the game and unlock certain cities and content, they are not required as players can complete them at their own leisure. When not taking on a mission, players can free-roam and look around the cities of San Andreas, eat in restaurants, or cause havoc by attacking people

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Grand Theft Auto V
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Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 18 November 2014 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and it is the first main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since 2008s Grand Theft Auto IV. The open world design lets players freely roam San Andreas open countryside, the game is played from either a first-person or third-person view and its world is navigated on foot or by vehicle. Players control the three lead protagonists throughout single-player and switch between both during and outside of missions. The story is centred on the heist sequences, and many missions involve shooting and driving gameplay, a wanted system governs the aggression of law enforcement response to players who commit crimes. Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer mode, lets up to 30 players explore the open world. Development began soon after Grand Theft Auto IVs release and was shared between many of Rockstars studios worldwide, much of the development work constituted the open worlds creation, and several team members conducted field research around California to capture footage for the design team. The games soundtrack features a score composed by a team of producers who collaborated over several years. It received widespread acclaim, with praise directed at its multiple protagonist design, open world, presentation. It caused controversies related to its depiction of women and a mission featuring torture during a hostage interrogation and it has shipped over 75 million copies and is one of the best-selling video games of all time. Grand Theft Auto V is a game played from either a first-person or third-person view. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story, outside of missions, players may freely roam the open world. Composed of the San Andreas open countryside area and the city of Los Santos. It may be explored after the games beginning without restriction. Players use melee attacks, firearms and explosives to fight enemies, to accommodate the maps size, the game introduces vehicle types absent in its predecessor Grand Theft Auto IV, such as fixed-wing aircraft. In combat, auto-aim and a system may be used as assistance against enemies. Should players take damage, their health meter will gradually regenerate to its halfway point, players respawn at hospitals when their health depletes. If players commit crimes, law enforcement agencies may respond as indicated by a meter in the head-up display

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IHeartMedia
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IHeartMedia, Inc. is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. began to operate as an owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings. Additionally, the company leases two channels on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and has expanded its presence through the iHeartRadio platform. IHeartMedia, Inc. also specializes in advertising through subsidiary Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings. The name Clear Channel came from AM broadcasting, referring to a channel on which only one station transmits, in the U. S. clear-channel stations have exclusive rights to their frequencies throughout most of the continent at night, when AM signals travel far due to skywave. The companys new name is intended to reflect its growing digital business, Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc. explained, We have a company thats doing progressive stuff, and yet were named after AM radio stations. Since 2008, iHeartMedia, Inc. has struggled to pay more than $20 billion in debt the company acquired from its leveraged buyout. The suspicions proved unfounded when quarterly earnings were announced in 2017, Clear Channel Communications purchased its first FM station in San Antonio in 1972. The company purchased the second clear channel AM station WOAI in 1975, in 1976, the company purchased its first stations outside of San Antonio. KXXO AM and KMOD FM in Tulsa were acquired under the name San Antonio Broadcasting, Stations were also added in Port Arthur, Texas and El Paso, Texas. In 1992, the U. S. Congress relaxed radio ownership rules slightly, by 1995, Clear Channel owned 43 radio stations and 16 television stations. When the Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law, the act deregulated media ownership, Clear Channel went on a subsequent buying spree, purchasing more than 70 other media companies and individual stations. In a few cases, following purchase of a competitor, Clear Channel was forced to divest some of its stations, in 1997 Clear Channel moved out of pure broadcasting when it purchased billboard firm Eller Media, which was led by Karl Eller. These included a 51% stake in Clear Media Ltd. in China, in 1999, the company acquired Jacor Communications, a radio corporation based in Cincinnati. R. Steven Hicks and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst began Capstar Broadcasting in 1996 and a year later had become the largest owner of radio stations in the country, with 243 stations in all. Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst owned 59 percent of Capstar, with 355 stations in 83 markets, Chancellor Media later became AMFM Inc. which was acquired by Clear Channel in a deal announced October 3,1999, and valued at $17.4 billion. The resulting company would own 830 radio stations,19 television stations, in 2005 Clear Channel Communications split into three separate companies. Clear Channel Communications was a broadcaster, Clear Channel Outdoor was out-of-home advertising

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Premiere Networks
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Premiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States and it is a wholly owned subsidiary of iHeartMedia and is headed by Julie Talbott, who serves as president. Premiere Networks syndicates more than 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,500 radio affiliations, Premiere is based in Sherman Oaks, California, with 13 offices nationwide. Many of Premieres programs are available on iHeartRadio and iHeartRadio. com. Premiere was founded in 1987 with an investment of $30,000, founders included Steve Lehman, Tim Kelly, Louise Palanker and Ed Mann. The network produced 3 programs with approximately 250 affiliates, in 1992, Premiere entered the agreement with Mediabase, and later acquired the said company in 1994. In 1997, Jacor Communications acquired both Premiere and EFM Media, which in turn, Clear Channel Communications ultimately bought Jacor, following the merger with AMFM Inc. in 2000, its syndication arm AMFM Radio Networks and its radio shows, were folded into Premieres operations. Premiere entered an agreement with Fox Sports to launch Fox Sports Radio. Premiere Networks programs are distributed over satellite, NexGen Digital WANcasting. The FTP server serves both primary and backup delivery needs for weekly pre-recorded content, for years, Premiere used the popular Starguide Digital III satellite system to distribute their programs, but has fully converted over to X-Digital Systems for satellite delivery. Premieres entertainment programs are distributed on a mixture of fee and barter based deals, programs are organized alphabetically by franchise, and display their date, time, if theyre available for online download, and additional information. See also List of programming syndicated by iHeartMedia, - The show requires a paid subscription to download. A syndicated 3 hour radio program marketed to radio stations with an Oldies format and it launched in early 1988 and aired over 200 radio stations before ending production in 1993. Some stations continued airing reruns from 1993-1996, steele died in August 1997 from lung cancer, producer M. G. Kelly took over the show, retooled it into American Hit List, and distributes the show himself. In 2015, Live From the 60s was re-launched with MG Kelly producing and syndicating the show out himself. Lionel Dreamland with Art Bell, later Whitley Strieber Jeff Rense Sex with Dr. Natasha - Ended in Spring 2004 as a response to the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show and the FCC crackdown that followed. Even though the show had never been cited or fined by the FCC, after Midnite -1993 to 2013, country music show hosted by Blair Garner. Garner departed for Cumulus Media Networks, the After Midnite name is, as of late 2013, being used for various guest hosts in the time slot

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WestwoodOne
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Westwood One, owned and operated by Cumulus Media, is an American mass media company headquartered in New York, New York, specializing in radio syndication and audio content. As the radio network and national brand of Cumulus, Westwood One distributes hundreds of programs to radio stations, the company was, at various times, managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation and Viacom. It was later purchased by the equity firm The Gores Group. In September 2013, Dial Global rebranded under the name Westwood One and announced an agreement with Cumulus Media. Westwood One now includes the network of Westwood One and Cumulus Media Networks. The company takes its name from a network also named Westwood One. Dial Global was founded as X Radio Networks, a division of Excelsior Radio Networks and it merged with Dial Communications and Global Media in 2006, from which it derived the Dial Global name. Dial Global initially specialized in syndicated weekend music programs of various types, in 2007 it acquired the former Transtar Radio Networks from the original Westwood One. Triton Media Group, a subsidiary of Oaktree Capital Management, purchased Excelsior in early 2008, triton used the Dial Global name for all of its programming and later bought the remainder of Westwood One in 2011, folding it into its Dial Global subsidiary. Dial Global began exhibiting signs of distress in late 2012. It simultaneously announced that it had filed for delisting from NASDAQ, at the time of the announcement, Dial Global stock was trading at $2.00 a share, by mid-January 2013, DGs stock was trading at.30 a share. In a SEC 8-K filing dated January 15,2013, DG announced that it had extended a loan agreement with certain lenders. On August 29,2013, it was announced by The Wall Street Journal that Cumulus Broadcasting will be purchasing Dial Global. Cumulus will be paying $260 million in cash for this programming syndication service, to fund that sale, Cumulus will make a pair of station deals with Townsquare Media, Oaktree Capital Managements radio station ownership division. On September 4,2013, Dial Global announced that - as of that day - the company was renaming itself Westwood One. Both transactions on the Cumulus-Townsquare deal were closed on November 14,2013, the companys numerous acquisitions prompted rival Talk Radio Network to file an antitrust lawsuit against what was then Dial Global in August 2012. Cumulus settled the lawsuit with TRN on amicable terms in March 2014, which was followed by TRN filing another lawsuit over the issue in April 2016

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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy

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Facebook
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Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. Facebook gradually added support for students at other universities. Since 2006, anyone age 13 and older has been allowed to become a user of Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement. The Facebook name comes from the face book directories often given to United States university students, Facebook may be accessed by a large range of desktops, laptops, tablet computers, and smartphones over the Internet and mobile networks. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile indicating their name, occupation, schools attended and so on. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups organized by workplace, school, hobbies or other topics, in groups, editors can pin posts to top. Additionally, users can complain about or block unpleasant people, because of the large volume of data that users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for its privacy policies. Facebook makes most of its revenue from advertisements which appear onscreen, Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012, and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13,2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poors 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion, Facebook has more than 1.86 billion monthly active users as of December 31,2016. As of April 2016, Facebook was the most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook classifies users from the ages of 13 to 18 as minors and therefore sets their profiles to share content with friends only. Zuckerberg wrote a program called Facemash on October 28,2003 while attending Harvard University as a sophomore, to accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of Harvards computer network and copied private dormitory ID images. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online, the site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg faced expulsion and was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final exam. He uploaded 500 Augustan images to a website, each of which was featured with a corresponding comments section and he shared the site with his classmates, and people started sharing notes. The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004 and he said that he was inspired by an editorial about the Facemash incident in The Harvard Crimson. On February 4,2004, Zuckerberg launched Thefacebook, originally located at thefacebook. com. com and they claimed that he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to The Harvard Crimson and the newspaper began an investigation and they later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling in 2008 for 1.2 million shares. Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, within the first month, eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website

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Instagram
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In August 2015, version 7.5 was released for mobile devices, allowing users to upload media captured in any aspect ratio, but not at full size. Users can also apply various digital filters to their images, the service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012 and over 300 million as of December 2014. Support for the app is available for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Windows 10 devices and Android handsets, while third-party Instagram apps are available for BlackBerry 10, the service was acquired by Facebook in April 2012 for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. In 2013, Instagram grew by 23%, while Facebook, as the parent company, Instagram began development in San Francisco, when Systrom and Brazilian Krieger chose to focus their multi-featured HTML5 check-in project, Burbn, on mobile photography. As Krieger reasoned, Burbn became too similar to Foursquare, and for that, Burbn pivoted to become more focused. The word Instagram is a portmanteau of instant camera and telegram, on March 5,2010, Systrom closed a $500,000 seed funding round with Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz while working on Burbn. Josh Riedel then joined the company as Community Manager, shayne Sweeney joined in November 2010 as an engineer and Jessica Zollman was hired as a Community Evangelist in August 2011. In January 2011, Instagram added hashtags to help users discover both photographs and each other, Instagram encourages users to make tags both specific and relevant, rather than tagging generic words like photo, to make photographs stand out and to attract like-minded Instagram users. In September, version 2.0 went live in the App Store and included new and live filters, instant tilt–shift, high resolution photographs, optional borders, one-click rotation, the deal valued Instagram at around $25 million. On April 3,2012, Instagram was released for Android phones running the 2.2 Froyo version of the OS and that same week, Instagram raised $50 million from venture capitalists for a share of the company, the process valued Instagram at $500 million. Facebook made an offer to purchase Instagram, along with its 13 employees, for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock in April 2012, with a plan to keep the company independently managed. Britains Office of Fair Trading approved the deal on August 14,2012, and on August 22,2012, on September 6,2012, the deal between Instagram and Facebook was officially closed. On April 12,2012, Facebook acquired Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash, the deal, which was made just prior to Facebooks scheduled IPO, cost about a quarter of Facebooks cash-on-hand, according to figures documented at the end of 2011. Mark Zuckerberg noted that Facebook was committed to building and growing Instagram independently, according to multiple reports, the deal netted Systrom $400 million based on his ownership stake in the business. The exact purchase price was $300 million in cash and 23 million shares of stock, on December 17,2012, Instagram updated its Terms of Service, granting itself the right—starting on January 16, 2013—to sell users photos to third parties without notification or compensation. In January 2013, it was confirmed that Instagram had asked for identification as a form of verification due to unspecified violations. In September 2013, Instagram reaffirmed its commitment to free and open access to its app for users. On October 3,2013, Instagram announced that it would be adding advertising to its platform

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database

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KBIG
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KBIG is an FM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned by iHeartMedia. The station plays a Hot Adult Contemporary format heavy on music from current hits through the 1990s, the station has studios located in Burbank and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson. KBIG was first founded by John H. Poole in 1952 as an AM radio station originating from Catalina Island off the coast of California. Known as The Catalina Island Station, Poole knew KBIG would have wide coverage of Southern California by broadcasting the stations directional signal across ocean water, KBIG was heard from Santa Barbara to San Diego, including the large audience in Los Angeles. The station became popular presenting an Island theme and scheduling music, news and we knew if you changed stations during a commercial, you would always find music on K-BIG, Poole claimed. The call letters were named in honor of the original disc jockey. The AM station was sold to broadcasters in 1980 and now operates as 740 KBRT. In 1959 KBIG began simulcasting its AM signal on the 104.3 FM frequency, the format was Beautiful music, playing lush instrumental versions of Hollywood, Broadway and pop songs with an occasional vocal. KBIG also had its staff of KBIG Singers, who would sing the stations jingles, over time, the Beautiful music format began to age. In 1987, the station dropped instrumentals and became an adult contemporary station, placing it as a direct competitor to 103.5 KOST. Both stations enjoyed high ratings and were heard in many Los Angeles offices, by 1990, KBIG dropped the 1960s songs and began playing more current hits. In 1992, KBIG shifted towards Hot AC and this lasted until 1995, when KBIG moved back towards mainstream AC to again compete against KOST. In the 1990s, KBIG was home to Disco Saturday Night, in late 1996, KBIG once again moved toward a Hot AC format. Bonneville decided to sell KBIG to Chancellor in 1997, in exchange, Chancellor sold KZLA to Bonneville. In 1998, the station relaunched as The New K-BIG104, replaced most of its airstaff, during this time, KBIG briefly became the Los Angeles area affiliate to the nationally syndicated Delilah show. In 1999, Chancellor acquired KOST and KFI from Cox Radio, the same year, Chancellor and Capstar had merged, forming AMFM, Inc. With AMFM now owning KOST, management moved KBIG to a Hot AC format with a lean on 80s gold, uptempo AC currents, in 2000, AMFM was purchased by Clear Channel Communications. DJs also began to read out the letters of the stations ID, K-B-I-G, instead of the K-BIG, although briefly in the summer of 2007

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Bill Handel
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William Wolf Bill Handel is the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting and an AM radio personality in Los Angeles, California. Handel currently hosts two programs on KFI in Los Angeles, California. First is KFIs local morning show, in which he comments on current events, the program is one of the top rated morning programs in the Los Angeles market, with more than 1 million listeners. Additionally, he hosts a legal advice show on weekends called Handel on the Law and his legal show is currently his longest running radio program to date. In early 2010, The Bill Handel Show replaced Dr. Laura when she ended her syndicated show, both of Handels shows played across the United States on Americas Talk channel 158 on XM Satellite Radio. On February 22,2010, the show was replaced by The Bill Carroll Show. Handel was born Wolf Handel in Brazil, to Leo and Nechama Handel and his father Leo Handel was a Polish Jew who had hidden in a Jesuit house and lived as a Catholic priest during World War II. Much of the Handel family lost their lives in the Holocaust, Leo applied to emigrate to the United States legally, and was forced to wait for eleven years to obtain entry. During this time he lived in Brazil where he met and married his wife, Nechama, the Handel family emigrated to the U. S. when Bill was six. He was sworn in as a U. S. citizen at the age of eleven and he spent the remainder of his formative years growing up in the San Fernando Valley. He attended California State University, Northridge where he obtained his bachelors degree in Political Science and he then earned his J. D. from Whittier Law School. Handel is the director of the Center for Surrogate Parenting, which helps childless couples have children through surrogacy, the company has offices in California and Maryland and has clients from all over the world. Handel is known to refer to himself as a Latino Jew, the German government originally thought that KFI was a neo-Nazi radio station and did not want to allow the trip, but finally relented after being presented with more information. He hosted his own show, Judge For Yourself, which was canceled due to low ratings. Judge For Yourself was unique in that it solicited comments from a 900 number and he served as a fill-in host on Glenn Beck, when it aired on CNN Headline News. He underwent bariatric surgery at Centinela Freeman Hospital to lose weight, Handels experiences with this surgical procedure have been thoroughly documented in a series of segments on his morning radio show. Handel has also discussed his previous drug addiction. He and his wife Marjorie have twin daughters named Barbara and Pamela, prior to January 2014 The Bill Handel Show aired from 5 a. m. to 9 a. m. in Los Angeles and was heavily news based

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KFI
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KFI is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned and operated by iHeartMedia. KFI is a Class A50,000 watt station and it airs a talk radio format, with mostly local hosts and frequent news updates. Its studios are located in Burbank between the Warner Bros, Studios and The Burbank Studios, and it has a transmitter site in La Mirada near the Artesia Boulevard exit of Interstate 5, the Santa Ana Freeway. By day, its signal can be heard around Southern California and at night, KFI is licensed by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission to broadcast in the HD format. Los Angeles media has reported that KFI has turned off the AM HD signal. In 1922, Earle C. Anthony was the founder and owner of what eventually became KFI, from 1929 to 1944, he also owned KECA1430, later 780 and now 790 KABC. The E. C. A. in KECA stood for Earle C and he was an early president of the National Association of Broadcasters and, during his term, oversaw the establishment of the organizations first paid staff. He was also a founder of one of the earliest television stations in Los Angeles, KFI-TV channel 9 and KFI-FM, KFI initially used a 50-watt transmitter made from a crank telephone. Early on, Anthony operated the station from his garage, in its early days, it was typically on the air for only four and a half hours a day. From the time of its inception in 1926, the National Broadcasting Company operated two networks, the Red Network and the Blue Network, the Red Network carried sponsored commercial programs, while the Blue Network carried the sustaining ones. The red and blue came from the colors of the lines drawn on network maps. In 1931, NBC reorganized its West Coast operations, creating Orange, KFI was part of the Orange group, along with KGO, Oakland, KGW, Portland, KOMO, Seattle, and KHQ, Spokane. KFI,640 kHz, was an affiliate of the NBC Red Network and KECA,1430 kHz, in 1939, KECA moved to 780 kHz, the frequency of the former KEHE. Anthony sold KECA in 1944 and it moved to 790 kHz, KFI helped to keep the calm during the dark days of World War II by airing President Franklin D. Roosevelts Fireside Chats. Later, it carried Monitor, the very successful weekend radio service. The bullet hole is still there to this day, preserved as a monument to KFIs wartime service, KFIs call letters were assigned sequentially but many people assumed that the FI stood for Farmers Information. The frost warnings moved to 7 pm until the late 1970s when they were removed from the schedule, KFI put the first FM station on the air, west of the Mississippi, in August 1941 from Mount Lee. That was K45LA on the old 42-50 megacycle FM band and this was what soon became KHJ-FM and is todays KRTH at 101.1 MHz

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On Air with Ryan Seacrest
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On Air with Ryan Seacrest is an American syndicated radio program hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The TV series ran for months in 2004, but nationwide syndication of the radio program would not start until 2008. The show is broadcast from the KIIS-FM studios in Burbank, California, on Air with Ryan Seacrest is also syndicated through Premiere Networks on over 130 radio stations nationwide and in Canada. This segment was actually originated by Seacrests predecessor on KIIS-FM, Rick Dees, one of the most popular segments is the fictional Ryans Roses, where listeners call in with the suspicion that their significant other is cheating. An On Air staff member then calls the accused cheater imitating a florist who wishes to them a dozen free roses to be sent to anybody of their choosing. Often the accused cheater will send the flowers to the person, which often results in the truth pouring out. This segment is based on the common radio skit War of the Roses, on October 7,2015, Ellen K announced she was leaving the show to launch her own morning show on KOST, KIIS-FMs sister station, on October 19. Her last broadcast was on October 16,2015, following departure from the show, Ellen was replaced by former KIIS-FM midday jock Sisanie. It was officially announced on December 4,2015, during the KIIS Jingle Ball 2015 and it was later aired on Kiss 92FM from 8pm to 12mn on weeknights until January 2016. From June 2010, this aired on the Malaysia radio station. Previously, this show was aired on 1 pm to 4 pm weekdays, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, On Air can be heard on Virgin Radio 104.4 every Sunday to Thursday from 1pm to 3pm and re-airs every Sunday to Wednesday from 10pm to 12pm. In Australia, the show airs weeknights 7pm-9pm on the KIIS Network, in South Africa the show is broadcast on 94.5 KFM in the Western Cape every weekday from 7pm - 10pm local time. In Namibia, the show is broadcast in most large towns and cities across the country by Windhoek based radio station, in Dominican Republic, Ryans show is broadcast on Be 99.7 everyday from noon to 4pm. In United Kingdom, Ryans show is broadcast on Heat Radio each weekday afternoon, Ryans show was first broadcast on the Real Radio network weekday night at 10pm. In Lebanon the show airs weekdays 12nn-3pm on Virgin Radio Lebanon, in Jordan the show airs on Beat FM In China, The syndicated program aired on Beijing Peoples Broadcasting Stations METRO Radio/FM94. 5MHz from May 18th,2015. The show airs from 10 am to 2 pm on weekdays, Ryans Roses - Listeners call in with the suspicion that their significant other is cheating. An On Air staff member then calls the accused cheater imitating a florist who wishes to them a dozen free roses to be sent to anybody of their choosing. Often the accused cheater will send the flowers to the person, which often results in the truth pouring out

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KIIS-FM
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KIIS-FM – branded 102.7 KIIS FM – is a commercial Top 40 radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. KIIS-FM is the origin of the KISS-FM brand, and currently serves as the station for On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The KIIS-FM studios are located in Burbank, while the station transmitter resides on Mount Wilson, besides a standard analog transmission, KIIS-FM broadcasts over two HD Radio channels including Evolution on its HD-2 subchannel, and features an all-dance music format. Streams online via iHeartRadio, and extends its signal by using a single full-power repeater – KVVS in Rosamond. The station also simulcasts over channel 11 on Sirius XM satellite radio, KIIS-FM has consistently been rated the #1 radio station in all of the Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura County markets, averaging nearly 1 million listeners. 102.7 FM started as KLAC-FM, a station to KLAC. The station was a simulcast of the AM station, until the late 1960s, when the Federal Communications Commission banned continuous AM/FM simulcasts for over half of the broadcast day. The FM started its own programming, which was a middle of the format, in 1967. KKDJ broadcast as an FM top 40 station until 1975, when Combined Communications purchased KKDJ, at that time, KKDJs call letters were changed to KIIS-FM. The spelling of K-I-I-S instead of KISS, was because it resembled the AM frequency, the new merged station was referred to as, AM and FM, K-double I-S. Later, in 1977, News Director Gary McKenzie who went on to anchor at RKO Radio Networks, the AM and FM stations did simulcasts during the day while returning to two separate stations in the evening hours. Unable to draw high ratings with contemporary, KIIS-FM began to evolve, first to Top 40 in 1976, then Dance and Disco in 1978. KIIS AM would keep its soft rock/adult contemporary format until late 1979, just prior to this, Gannett Company purchased both KIIS-AM-FM and Combined Communications. In 1981, the format of KIIS AM was changed to religious talk, rick Dees joined the station for mornings in July 1981 after 93 KHJ switched formats to Country. Fill-In personality Dave Sebastian, working both the AM and FM stations at the time, hosted the vacated FM morning show until the arrival of Dees due to a clause in his contract. With Dees in mornings, KIIS became a CHR powerhouse in Los Angeles, in 1985, KIIS returned to a Top 40 format and simulcasted KIIS-FM morning and afternoon shows, while all other day parts had different disc jockeys. The simulcast continued until 1997, when KIIS AM flipped to Sports Talk as KXTA, simulcasting with XETRA-AM Tijuana/San Diego until 2005. In 1998, Jacor Communications acquired KAVS and KYHT, abandoning the format as High Desert Modern Rock 97.7 &105.3

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Mark and Brian
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The Mark & Brian Show was an American radio talk show hosted by Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, known on the air as Mark & Brian. In 1985, Thompson was working as a jockey when he was introduced to Phelps. Their first joint on-air appearance was on WAPI-FM in Birmingham, Alabama, an offer to move West and take over the morning slot at KLOS led to the premiere of The Mark & Brian Show in Los Angeles on September 8,1987. The Mark & Brian Show included sketches and annual events, popular sketches included The Red Carpet Minute with Edward Gordon, Miniature Theater, and other celebrity-based sketches. They were #1 in Los Angeles until 1992, when Howard Sterns syndicated show came to Los Angeles, in 2007, the concept was modified to Three Strangers and a Wedding, in which the bride chose two of the five male finalists to come to the wedding. Upon meeting the bride at the wedding, the grooms had the option of proposing to the bride, both resulting marriages were brief and ended in divorce. They have also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Mark & Brian released three CD compilations of material from their morning show, All of Me, You Had To Be There, and Little Drummer Boys. All proceeds were donated to their favorite charities, the popularity of their radio show gave Mark & Brian several opportunities to branch out into other entertainment media. In 1991-92, they hosted a short-lived NBC TV series, The Adventures of Mark & Brian, the duo also appeared in several motion pictures, notably Jason Goes to Hell, The Final Friday, the documentary Trekkies, and The Princess Diaries. They played concerned onlookers in the made-for-TV movie A Very Brady Christmas during one of the scenes at the collapsed building and they also appeared unbilled as caterers in the Married. With Children episode Married. with Prom Queen, Mark & Brian also had a special appearance in a 1993 episode of The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. playing two cowboys walking into a whiskey only bar. Mark & Brian convinced Frank Jordan, mayor of San Francisco, California to shower with them, completely nude, former producers include Nicole Sandler, Johnny Vega, Rosemary Jimenez and Frank Murphy. Their last producer was Ted Lekas and his last day at KLOS was revealed to be August 17,2012. In 2014, Mark and Lynda announced that they would soon be launching the website www. mandlstudios. com to host all of their current, on August 17,2012, during Thompsons farewell show, Phelps announced that he, too, would be leaving KLOS. He is currently working on a comedy podcast with Jill Whelan called The Brian, Mark began hosting a solo radio show, Mark in the Morning which started on February 2,2015 on rival classic rock station 100.3 KSWD The Sound in Los Angeles. Marks on air talent includes Andy Chanley, Gina Grad, and his daughter, Katie Thompson, daniel Mizrahi is the only staff member he brought over from his time at KLOS

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KOST
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KOST is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. KOST is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and airs a Mainstream AC radio format and it is one of three Adult Contemporary-based formatted radio station in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, along with co-owned Hot AC KBIG and CBS Radio-owned Smooth AC/Urban AC KTWV. KOST broadcasts all-Christmas music from mid-November to December 25th each year, the station is one of the top rated radio stations in Los Angeles and one of the top revenue billing radio stations in the United States. KOSTs website is among the most visited Adult Contemporary radio station websites in America, the KOST call sign is usually pronounced Coast on the air, as in West Coast. KOST has studios and offices, along with iHearts other L. A. stations, the transmitter is atop Mount Wilson alongside most L. A. based television and FM radio stations. KOST broadcasts in the HD format, HD1 is a digital simulcast of KOSTs analog signal. HD2 is an HD simulcast of the radio format heard on co-owned 640 KFI. From November 2013 until February 2015, KOSTs HD3 signal relayed the syndicated Christian Rock station Air 1, but in early February, the stations HD3 signal went dark and the HD signal of Air 1 moved to a subchannel on co-owned 92.3 KHHT. KOST is rebroadcast on translator stations K280DT in Thousand Oaks at 103.9 FM, K288AX currently has a construction permit to move from 105.5 To 94.7 MHz. On October 9,1956, the station first signed on as KGLA, noted radio programmer Gordon McLendon bought KGLA in the 1960s, changing the call letters in November 1966 to KADS. McLendon, with permission from the Federal Communications Commission, experimented with an all-advertisement format, one of its features was that listeners could purchase their own commercials on KADS, not unlike classified advertising in a newspaper. FM radios were not widely owned in the 1960s and the experimental format was not successful. The station aired a beautiful music sound. In 1973, Cox Communications purchased KOST to pair with its newly-bought AM640 KFI, KOST continued its easy listening sound through the 1970s, a popular format also heard on rivals 98.7 KJOI and 104.3 KBIG. In the early 1980s, KOST gradually added more vocals, until November 15,1982, former Sacramento radio personality Bryan Simmons was KOSTs first host when the station signed on with its new format. On February 3,1986, Mark Wallengren and Kim Amidon made their debut as KOSTs new morning hosts, the Mark and Kim morning show was one of the longest running shows on Los Angeles radio, continuing more than 20 years, till 2007. In 1999, Cox Communications sold KOST and sister station KFI to AMFM, over the years, the station has had solid ratings. Until recently there had been little turnover among the air staff, on November 29,2007, morning show co-host Kim Amidon left, followed by KOSTs original midday host Mike Sakellarides and longtime traffic reporter Mike Nolan

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The Stephanie Miller Show
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The Stephanie Miller Show is a syndicated progressive talk radio program that discusses politics, current events, and pop culture using a fast-paced, impromptu style. The three-hour show is hosted by comedian Stephanie Miller along with voice artist Jim Ward, the show is also video simulcast live on Free Speech TV. Each days show is also available commercial-free for download from the website via the paid subscription Stephcast. The radio show should not be confused with Millers short-lived 1995 syndicated TV talk show with the same name, the Stephanie Miller Show is heard on affiliates around the country and has a weekly cume of 2.5 million listeners. The shows audience has grown from 1 million in Fall 2005 on 40 affiliates, the show began simulcasting on Free Speech TV after a successful Indiegogo campaign to raise the funds to produce the show for TV. In October 2014, Miller began offering the uncensored Stephanie Millers Happy Hour podcast, when the show began in 2004, the on-air personalities were Stephanie Miller as host, “Voice Deity” Jim Ward as co-host, and “Boy Toy” Chris Lavoie as executive producer. The show was dubbed Operation Take Back America, and primarily consisted of Miller and Ward, lavoie’s on-air presence expanded over the years. Associate Producer Rebekah Taylor would also occasionally be heard on air, there were three standard segments in the show, Right Wing World, Stand-Up News, Tinsel Talk. Over the years the show evolved to include a series of in-studio guests, and phone-in contributors, and in the process, Right Wing World, Stand-Up News. Ward reduced his role in January 2014 to once a week, but expanded his role again approximately a year and a half later, Rebekah Taylor left in 2012, and was subsequently replaced by Travis Bone who left in 2015. Sean Comiskey is now Associate Producer, along with Yanira Johnson who screens phone callers, Lavoie left as executive producer in November 2015, replaced by John Melendez, and subsequently by current executive producer Vanessa Rumbles. Stephanie Miller came out as a lesbian during hour two of the show broadcast on August 13,2010, the show is primarily a mix of comedy and political topics, though Miller notes that we talk less about politics than any other show in the progressive talk format. Much of the show takes the form of Miller introducing a news item or soundbite, followed by discussion among Miller, Ward, Rumbles, the discussions are punctuated with sound effects, short audio clips, and imitations by Ward. Miller calls her show a mix of high-brow and low-brow, and its also described as a Mensa meeting with fart jokes. Because the show can include interviews with political figures among jokes appealing to a sense of humor, Miller has described the shows format as senator, fart joke, senator. Miller often refers to her co-hosts, producers, and sidekicks as mooks, since moving the show to her home basement studio in January 2014, Millers dogs Max and Fred are usually in the studio with her. Miller often starts an hour of the show by reading a few e-mails from listeners, the e-mails can include anything from brief funny comments to elaborate humorous audio productions. Miller usually plays a mild applause sound effect after reading each e-mail, the show takes several calls from listeners each hour at the phone number 1-323-468-1135

Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-la

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Clockwise from top: Downtown Chicago, the Chicago Theatre, the 'L', Navy Pier, Millennium Park, the Field Museum, and the Willis Tower.

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Traditional Potawatomi costume on display at the Field Museum

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An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Illinois
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Illinois is a state in the midwestern region of the United States, achieving statehood in 1818. It is the 6th most populous state and 25th largest state in terms of land area, the word Illinois comes from a French rendering of a native Algonquin word. For decades, OHare International Airport has been ranked as one of the worlds busiest airports, Il

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Mississippian copper plate found at the Saddle Site in Union County, Illinois

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Illinois in 1718, approximate modern state area highlighted, from Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi by Guillaume de L'Isle.

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Native women and children fleeing the Battle of Bad Axe during the Black Hawk War

Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county

California
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California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western coast of the U. S, California is bordered by the other U. S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. Los Angeles is Californias most populous city, and th

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A forest of redwood trees in Redwood National Park

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Mount Shasta

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Aerial view of the California Central Valley

KPWR
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KPWR is a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on an analog signal and in HD Radio. KPWR airs a Rhythmic Top 40 format playing hip hop and R&B with occasional rhythmic pop/dance titles and it is owned and operated by Emmis Communications and is one of its two flagship stations alo

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KPWR logo from 1986 to 1993 (1992−93 edition)

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KPWR

Power 106
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KPWR is a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting to the Greater Los Angeles area on an analog signal and in HD Radio. KPWR airs a Rhythmic Top 40 format playing hip hop and R&B with occasional rhythmic pop/dance titles and it is owned and operated by Emmis Communications and is one of its two flagship stations alo

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KPWR logo from 1986 to 1993 (1992−93 edition)

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KPWR

KRRL
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KRRL is a commercial radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, with an Urban Contemporary format. Its studios are located in Burbank between the Warner Bros, Studios and The Burbank Studios, and it has a transmitter site on Mount Wilson with most other television and FM radio stations serving Los Angeles. The station first signed on the ai

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KRRL

Culver City High School
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Culver City High School is the main public high school of the Culver City Unified School District in Culver City, California. The schools colors are blue and silver, and the mascot is the centaur, as of 2014, the enrollment was roughly 2000. Culver City High School is recognized as a California Distinguished School, since 2004, it has held an annua

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"Learn To Achieve. Achieve To Learn. Tomorrow Starts Today."

The Pharcyde
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The Pharcyde is an American alternative hip hop group, formed in 1989, from South Central Los Angeles. The original four members of the group are Imani, Slimkid3, Bootie Brown, DJ Mark Luv was the groups first disc jockey, followed by producer J-Swift and then J Dilla. The group is perhaps best known for the hit singles Drop, Passin Me By and Runni

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Slimkid3 and Fatlip at Donauinselfest 2013

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The Pharcyde performing at The Village club in Dublin on March 17, 2006

Baka Boyz
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The Baka Boyz, brothers Nick and Eric Vidal, are American radio personalities, music producers and remixers from Bakersfield, California. The duo first achieved fame on the radio station KPWR in Los Angeles. The Baka Boyz were originally DJs in Bakersfield, California, before moving south to Los Angeles and they first began at Power 106 in 1992 wit

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Greater Los Angeles Area
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Throughout the 20th century, it was one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States, although growth has slowed since 2000. As of the 2010 U. S. Census, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of nearly 13 million residents. Meanwhile, the metropolitan regions population at the 2010 census was estimated to be over 17.

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Los Angeles

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Long Beach

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The Los Angeles Basin, viewed south from Mulholland Drive. From left to right can be seen the Santa Ana Mountains / Saddleback (horizon), downtown L.A., the Hollywood Bowl (foreground), Mid-Wilshire, Long Beach – Palos Verdes (background), Catalina Island (horizon), the Southbay and Pacific Ocean.

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Skyscrapers in Downtown Los Angeles

National Association of Broadcasters
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The NAB represents more than 8,300 terrestrial radio and television stations as well as broadcast networks. As of 2015, the president and CEO of the NAB is Gordon Smith, the NAB was founded as the National Association of Radio Broadcasters in 1922 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. The associations founder and first president was Eugene F, mcDonald Jr.

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NAB headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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NAB Convention Floor, Las Vegas, 2010

Malibu's Most Wanted
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The film is written by the creators of MADtv, Fax Bahr and Adam Small, who also serve as producers. The character of B-Rad originally appeared in Jamie Kennedys hidden-camera show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, the film was given a PG-13 rating by the MPAA. To keep it, the films end-credits were edited to prevent the film receiving an R rating. Brad

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The movie poster for Malibu's Most Wanted

Soul Plane
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Soul Plane is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Jessy Terrero, written by Joe Zenga and starring Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man and Snoop Dogg. Supporting actors include MoNique, Loni Love, K. D, in response, he sues the airline and is awarded $100,000,000 by the jury. He decides to use the money to start his own airline, whose acronym an

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Theatrical release poster

The Longest Yard (2005 film)
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The Longest Yard is a 2005 American sports comedy film, a remake of the 1974 film of the same name. Burt Reynolds, who played Sandlers role in the original, co-stars as Nate Scarborough, Chris Rock plays Crewes friend, known as Caretaker. The film was produced by MTV Films and Happy Madison Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures, paul Cr

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Theatrical release poster

The Players Club
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The Players Club is a 1998 American comedy/drama film written and directed by Ice Cube, who made his directorial debut and also has a small role in the film. The film stars Bernie Mac, Monica Calhoun, Jamie Foxx, John Amos, A. J. Johnson, Alex Thomas, Charlie Murphy, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Diana Armstrong arrives at the scene of the raunchy,

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Theatrical release poster

Charlie's Angels 2
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Charlies Angels, Full Throttle is a 2003 American action comedy film directed by McG and written by John August, and Cormac and Marianne Wibberley. It is the sequel to 2000s Charlies Angels, itself based on the series of the same name by Ivan Goff. In an ensemble cast, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu return as the angels Natalie, Dylan an

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Promotional poster

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
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It was the first film released by Happy Madison Productions. Released on December 10,1999, the film received reviews from critics. A sequel, titled Deuce Bigalow, European Gigolo, was released in 2005, Deuce Bigalow, an insecure fishtank cleaner, is fired for cleaning the tank at a public aquarium in the nude. Deuce is unsuccessful in attracting wo

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Theatrical release poster

Fox television
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated c

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Fox Broadcasting Company

Fastlane (TV series)
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Fastlane is an American action/crime drama series that was broadcast on Fox from September 18,2002 to April 25,2003. On August 14,2005 G4 began rebroadcasting the complete series, after finishing its initial run on the network, Fastlane stopped airing on G4. Fastlane also aired on TVOne sometime around 2006, van Ray and Deaqon Hayes are two mismatc

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The main characters of Fastlane (from left to right), Van, Billie, and Deaq.

VH1
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VH1 is an American cable television network based in New York City that is owned by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks. The channel was first launched on January 1,1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting Systems short-lived Cable Music Channel and it was originally created by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainm

I Love New York (TV series)
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I Love New York is a reality television series featuring Tiffany New York Pollard on a quest to find her true love. The series first aired on VH1 as a spin off to Flavor of Love, another relationship competition series, the winner of the shows first season, Tango failed to deliver as New Yorks soul mate. When the second season aired, Tailor Made wa

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I Love New York

MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism toward

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
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Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 26 October 2004 for the PlayStation 2, a high definition remaster received a physical release on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on 30 June 2015 and 1 December 2015, respectively. It is t

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

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The player driving a car towards the Grove Street cul-de-sac in Los Santos at dusk.

Grand Theft Auto V
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Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 18 November 2014 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One and it is the first main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series since 2008s Grand Theft Auto IV. The open worl

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Players may take cover behind objects during firefights to avoid taking damage from enemies.

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Grand Theft Auto V

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Los Santos, the city featured in the game's open world. Reviewers praised its design and similarity to Los Angeles. The departure from Grand Theft Auto IV ‍ '​s Liberty City was also well received.

IHeartMedia
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IHeartMedia, Inc. is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. began to operate as an owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings. Additionally, the company leases two channels on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, and has expanded its presence through the iHeartRadio pl

Premiere Networks
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Premiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States and it is a wholly owned subsidiary of iHeartMedia and is headed by Julie Talbott, who serves as president. Premiere Networks syndicates more than 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,500 radio affiliations, Premiere is based in Sherm

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Premiere Networks, Inc.

WestwoodOne
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Westwood One, owned and operated by Cumulus Media, is an American mass media company headquartered in New York, New York, specializing in radio syndication and audio content. As the radio network and national brand of Cumulus, Westwood One distributes hundreds of programs to radio stations, the company was, at various times, managed by CBS Radio, t

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Westwood One, Inc.

Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, Califo

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Twitter's San Francisco, California headquarters, as seen from a corner on Market Street

Facebook
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Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. Facebook gradually added support for students at other universities. Since 2006, anyone age 13 and older has been allowed to become a user of Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement. The F

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Billboard on the Thomson Reuters building welcomes Facebook to NASDAQ, 2012

Instagram
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In August 2015, version 7.5 was released for mobile devices, allowing users to upload media captured in any aspect ratio, but not at full size. Users can also apply various digital filters to their images, the service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012 and over 300 million as of December 2014. Support for

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A photo collage of an unprocessed image (top left) modified with the 16 different Instagram filters available in 2011

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An original photograph (left) is automatically cropped to a square by Instagram, and has a filter added at the selection of the user (right)

IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data

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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

KBIG
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KBIG is an FM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned by iHeartMedia. The station plays a Hot Adult Contemporary format heavy on music from current hits through the 1990s, the station has studios located in Burbank and its transmitter is based on Mount Wilson. KBIG was first founded by John H. Poole in 1952 as an AM radio station originatin

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KBIG

Bill Handel
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William Wolf Bill Handel is the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting and an AM radio personality in Los Angeles, California. Handel currently hosts two programs on KFI in Los Angeles, California. First is KFIs local morning show, in which he comments on current events, the program is one of the top rated morning programs in th

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Bill Handel, June 2009

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Bill Handel at the ceremony receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame

KFI
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KFI is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned and operated by iHeartMedia. KFI is a Class A50,000 watt station and it airs a talk radio format, with mostly local hosts and frequent news updates. Its studios are located in Burbank between the Warner Bros, Studios and The Burbank Studios, and it has a transmitter site in La Mirada near

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KFI

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Advertisement for a live radio broadcast featuring soprano Lisa Roma, published in the Los Angeles Times on May 6, 1930

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KFI logo from 1981 to 1988

On Air with Ryan Seacrest
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On Air with Ryan Seacrest is an American syndicated radio program hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The TV series ran for months in 2004, but nationwide syndication of the radio program would not start until 2008. The show is broadcast from the KIIS-FM studios in Burbank, California, on Air with Ryan Seacrest is also syndicated through Premiere Networks on

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logo since 2014 present

KIIS-FM
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KIIS-FM – branded 102.7 KIIS FM – is a commercial Top 40 radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. KIIS-FM is the origin of the KISS-FM brand, and currently serves as the station for On Air with Ryan Seacrest. The KIIS-FM studios are located in Burbank, while the station transmitter resides on Mount Wilson, besides a standard analog transm

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KIIS-FM

Mark and Brian
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The Mark & Brian Show was an American radio talk show hosted by Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, known on the air as Mark & Brian. In 1985, Thompson was working as a jockey when he was introduced to Phelps. Their first joint on-air appearance was on WAPI-FM in Birmingham, Alabama, an offer to move West and take over the morning slot at KLOS led to t

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Poster for Mark & Brian painted on the building from the Laugh Factory on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles

KOST
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KOST is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California. KOST is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and airs a Mainstream AC radio format and it is one of three Adult Contemporary-based formatted radio station in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, along with co-owned Hot AC KBIG and CBS Radio-owned Smooth AC/Urban AC KTWV. KOST broadcast

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KOST 103.5 logo used until 2013.

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KOST

The Stephanie Miller Show
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The Stephanie Miller Show is a syndicated progressive talk radio program that discusses politics, current events, and pop culture using a fast-paced, impromptu style. The three-hour show is hosted by comedian Stephanie Miller along with voice artist Jim Ward, the show is also video simulcast live on Free Speech TV. Each days show is also available